Hopkins
Breaks Ground for New Cancer Research BuildingSecond in three years to make room for more grant-winning scientists

Just three years after dedicating a building devoted solely to cancer research,
Johns Hopkins Medicine broke ground for a second cancer research building
on its East Baltimore campus on Monday, March 3, 2003. The groundbreaking
ceremony included elected officials such as Senator Paul Sarbanes, Maryland
State Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley
and Baltimore City Council President Sheila Dixon, as well as Hopkins leaders,
including Raymond A. "Chip" Mason, chairman and CEO of Legg Mason, Inc. and
chairman of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University.

Construction of the new, $80 million cancer research building, dubbed CRB
II, is expected to begin in May and be completed by May 2005. It will be located
on Orleans Street, west of Broadway, next to the three-year old Bunting*Blaustein
Cancer Research Building. The Clark Construction Group, Inc. is the construction
manager.

"The need for new facilities arises out of our success," according
to Edward D. Miller, M.D., Dean/CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "Our experience
has been that when the government or private donors help with funding for
our infrastructure, as they did for the first cancer research building, the
Bunting*Blaustein Building, we are better able to recruit talented young scientists,
providing an enormous return on investment.

"We need this new facility to accommodate the steady growth in numbers
of our faculty securing gifts or grants to support the fight against cancer,"
he says. "The unraveling of the human genome combined with the explosion
in information technology have opened many new approaches in that fight. Fortunately,
our scientists have been leaders in transforming our understanding of cancer
and almost daily are making new advances against these diseases.

"While the cancer research building we dedicated in December 1999 made
room for scientists from our Kimmel Cancer Center, this new structure will
provide room for scientists from other departments also engaged in cancer
research, an effort that has become profoundly interdisciplinary," Dr.
Miller explains.

HDR Architecture Inc., the same firm that designed the Bunting*Blaustein
Cancer Research Building, is designing the new, adjoining research structure
as a mirror image of its neighbor. An interstitial design again will allow
for space above the laboratories to accommodate utilities and other electronics,
thus enabling repairs and equipment upgrades without disruption of laboratory
activities. Additional floor-to-floor height in the laboratory areas allows
two floors of office space for every one floor of laboratory space, resulting
in 10 stories of office space at each end of the building, with five stories
of laboratories between the ends. The building will be approximately 272,000
gross square feet.

In November 2001, the comprehensive cancer center at Johns Hopkins was named
the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in honor of businessman and
philanthropist Sidney Kimmel, who gave $150 million for cancer research and
patient care. It was the largest single gift to any Johns Hopkins institution.
The Kimmel Cancer Center includes the Bunting*Blaustein Cancer Research Building
and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building for clinical care, situated on
the east side of Broadway adjacent to the historic Johns Hopkins Hospital
buildings.